Several white students in South Africa are facing criminal charges after they allegedly forced black campus employees to eat food that was urinated on. A video has surfaced which appears to show the students instructing five elderly workers to drink beer and perform athletic tasks.

At one point, the University of Free State employees are apparently forced to eat food which has been urinated on.

The rector at the university has strongly condemned the video.

Student groups say they are now planning to call nationwide anti-racism demonstrations in response to the video, which was released on Tuesday.

“The Aparthate Video” shows four white male students taking four black, elderly, female workers and making them down a bottle of beer, run a race, play rugby and then kneel and eat meat which had been urinated on, she said.

The home-made film, described as “shocking and disgusting”, shows five laughing black workers taking part in a number of initiation-like rituals, including going down on their knees and eating meat a student had urinated on.

The recording, which came to light on Tuesday, was dubbed “The aparthate video” by The Star newspaper — a play on the racist system of white-minority rule (apartheid) that ended in South Africa in 1994.

University of the Free State spokesman Anton Fisher said the cleaners, some quite advanced in years, may have been duped.

“They obviously got the workers to participate under false pretence, something innocuous, and when it was put together it was not what they told the workers (it would be).”

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